female NAME · CURRENTLY #856
Nala
NAH-luh
“stem; reed”
A short name with Sanskrit usage and modern popular-culture associations.
SSA POPULARITY HISTORY
How Nala has traveled through time
851995
512000
712005
1252010
2862015
4062020
3172025
LATEST YEAR2025317 births
PEAK RANK#679in 2019
CURRENT USAGE100% F0% M
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration. SSA excludes names with fewer than five occurrences in a geographic area.